Our family loves ice cream! Especially when it is hot outside but, heat is not mandatory – ice cream is always in style!

While we enjoy Vanilla Ice Cream and Blueberry Ice Cream, coffee ice cream is another favorite!

The following coffee ice cream recipe requires a bit more planning since the coffee should be made in time to cool down before adding it to the milk and cream mixture.

I have shared before that our family tradition for years had been to have ice cream every Sunday night. Everyone looked forward to it! But, after last year’s grape harvest, I bought from my affiliate partner, Amazon, two new Cuisinart Pure Indulgence Ice Cream Makers – each makes 2 quarts of ice cream without ice or salt! There is no mess and ice cream is ready to eat in about 20 minutes! So, now we have ice cream much more frequently!

With the heat of summer upon us and working in the vineyard all day, no one has a big appetite at night. So, we normally have a light snack meal – our main meal is midday. It is just too hot (after working in the vineyard all afternoon) to have a big meal in the evening. Of all the snacky nighttime meals we have, ice cream is the favorite!

You might think it odd that we would eat ice cream for dinner but, it is healthy. We milk our own family cow so the milk is fresh and since it is raw milk, it is filled with good enzymes and protein. As you will see from the following recipe, it has a nice amount of cream – full of the healthy fats which growing children need!

I keep the freezer bowls in the freezer so they are ready anytime. When I am ready to make ice cream or frozen yogurt, I take the bowl out of the freezer, place it in the machine, add the mixing paddle, turn it on and pour in the mix. In 20 minutes, our frozen treat is ready to eat – that’s right, ice cream, without a mess, is ready in about 20 minutes!! It is so easy, even our younger children can do it! I use it much more frequently than I did our old fashioned ice cream maker!

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About Dina-Marie

Moving a family which includes 10 children from our "secure" life in Alabama to the "exciting" life of starting a vineyard in west Texas has definitely been challenging. Besides frugality, farm life and simple living, I have learned the importance of diet, quality of food and traditional cooking. Through the GAPS diet, I am successfully reversing my rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and food allergies.

My wife and I are coffee addicts. And maybe just a little bit snobbish, but nonetheless we are happier with a frenc press handy. I love the post and this reminds me I need to buy a new ice cream maker.

Would it taste ok if I used all raw, whole milk in place of cream? My supplier only sells raw whole milk and leaves all the cream in the milk. I would simply have no use for skim milk, and at $10/gallon, I can’t afford to throw the liquid gold away 😉

Ashley, that is exactly what I am doing now – Emme’s supply has gone down and I do not have enough to separate so I am using whole milk. The raw milk from a Jersey is high in cream anyway and the ice cream is delicious from it!

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